Streams Quotes
765 quotes by 581 authors
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Just as a snowflakewent on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, thepumpkin patch is a gathering of molecules from…
— Katherine Dunn
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The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted…
— Cyril Connolly
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Great ideas are fish in a stream. Your pen/pencil is a spear. If you don't spear them, they'll swim on by. Be ready.
— James Scott
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Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an…
— David Hume
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Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct, we are led to believe that within a…
— Charles Darwin
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I don't stream or buy CDs pretty much everything I buy, I do it on iTunes.
— Mark Hoppus
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On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it…
— Georg Simmel
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A river continually fed by a living fountain may as soon end its streams before it come to the ocean, as a stop be put…
— John Owen
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We will not forget that Liberty has made her home here, nor shall her chosen altar be neglected...A stream of light shall pierce the darkness…
— Grover Cleveland
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Lord, you are my lover, my longing, my flowing stream, my sun, and I am your reflection.
— Mechthild of Magdeburg
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Virgin could never have grown into the group of more than 200 companies it is now, were it not for a steady stream of intrapreneurs…
— Richard Branson
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I read with keen interest the words of a bumper sticker readily visible on the highly polished chrome bumper of a car which was weaving…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Suppose you turn your attention inward in search of this 'I'. You may encounter nothing more than an ever changing stream of consciousness, a flow…
— Jim Holt
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When it was proposed to me to go abroad, rub oft some rust, and better my condition in a worldly sense, I fear lest my…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the river, and fell…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing nets, twenty dolphin-lengths…
— Richard Dawkins
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Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become.
— Bob Goff
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When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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